Browsing English by Author "Lanning, Katie"

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From the eyes of monsters: Literary transformative monsters as agents of empathy

Overman, Blake A. (Wichita State University, 2022-05)

Literary monsters, the embodiments of human fear and anxiety, have existed in narratives for as long as stories have been told. Traditionally the monster is an antagonistic force, but what happens when the audience begins ...
Local attention: Melbourne on the map in Fergus Hume’s "Mystery of a Hansom Cab"

Lanning, Katie (John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2021-11-27)

Contrary to Machalias’s and Kipperman’s depictions of the novel as stuck in a colonial outpost, Hansom Cab presents a Melbourne that is mappable, traversable, and modern. The mysteries that populate Hume’s novel are driven ...
Scanner darkly: unpopularization in the Burney Newspaper Collection

Lanning, Katie (Routledge, 2021-01-18)

This essay explores the paradox of inaccessibility in popular archives. Often understood as democratizing, even digital databases of popular literature ironically contain a series of barriers: an extraordinary paywall and ...